Refining a heuristic for constructing Bayesian networks from structured arguments
Publication date
2018-02-25
Authors
Wieten, G.M.
Bex, Floris
van der Gaag, L.C.
Prakken, H.
Renooij, Silja
Editors
Verheij, Bart
Wiering, Marco
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Supervisors
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Part of book
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Abstract
Recently, a heuristic was proposed for constructing Bayesian networks (BNs) from structured arguments. This heuristic helps domain experts who are accustomed to argumentation to transform their reasoning into a BN and subsequently weigh their case evidence in a probabilistic manner. While the underlying undirected graph of the BN is automatically constructed by following the heuristic, the arc directions are to be set manually by a BN engineer in consultation with the domain expert. As the knowledge elicitation involved is known to be time-consuming, it is of value to (partly) automate this step. We propose a refinement of the heuristic to this end, which specifies the directions in which arcs are to be set given specific conditions on structured arguments.
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Structured argumentation, Bayesian networks, Taverne
Citation
Wieten, G M, Bex, F J, van der Gaag, L C, Prakken, H & Renooij, S 2018, Refining a heuristic for constructing Bayesian networks from structured arguments. in B Verheij & M Wiering (eds), Artificial Intelligence : 29th Benelux Conference, BNAIC 2017, Groningen, The Netherlands, November 8–9, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. 1 edn, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 823, Springer, Cham, pp. 32-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76892-2_3